| Kia oraAs part of the National Remembrance Day for Survivors of Abuse in Care the Citizens Commission on Human Rights are co-hosting an event with Te Ata Mental Health Support Services at the Ellen Melville Centre (2 Freyberg Place, Auckland CBD) on Wednesday 12 November from 10am to 4pm. And on Saturday 15 November we will be at the NZ Collective of Abused in State Care Charitable Trust (NZCAST) event in Frank Kitts Park, Wellington waterfront from 10am to 5pm. At these two events we will be showing new displays that depict some of the psychiatric abuse of human rights that has taken place in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rather than being a backwater, leading New Zealand psychiatrists conducted extreme experiments using various forms of electroshocks, lobotomies and deep sleep treatments from the 1940s onward. The abuse of children at Lake Alice Hospital is now recognised as torture, but it was not alone in extreme psychiatric abuse and torture of people in this country. If you want to find out more, come along to the Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland, on Wednesday 12 November or Frank Kitts Park, Wellington, on Saturday 15 November, and see the new displays, and please let others know too. |
| Date: Wednesday November 12, 2025 Time: 10:00 am to 4: 00 PM Location: 2 Freyberg Place, Auckland CBD, Auckland and Date: Saturday November 15, 2025 Time: 10:00am to 5pm Location: Frank Kitts Park, Wellington waterfront |
NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE DAY – PROGRAMME
| 10:00 AM | Opening the event | ||
| 10:15 AM | William Wilson and Karl Mokoraka | 30 mins on healing and forgiveness journey | |
| 10:45 AM | John Matthews (Te Ata) | 15 mins on the beginnings of psychiatric survivors | |
| 11:00 AM | Auckland Street Choir | Performance | |
| 11:20 AM | Denise Calteaux and Whanganui survivor | group group to talk on survivor experience | |
| 11:40 AM | Brendon Warne – from Anti P ministry | survivor experience and starting anti p ministries | |
| 12:00 PM | A minute silence | ||
| 12:01 PM | Lunch | Lunch Food served by Everybody Eats | |
| 12:45 PM | Mike Ferris (CCHR) | 30 mins on lake alice survivors and display | |
| 13:15 PM | TJ and Taako and whanau | intergenerational impact of survivors and the whanau healing journey | |
| 13:45 PM | Murray Haddow | Performance -poem about his time in Carrington | |
| 14:05 PM | Ann Helm Award | Georgia and Leo presenting | 20 mins on Annie Helm and the inaugural award |
| 14:25 PM | afternoon tea | Sweet and savoury treat | |
| 14:45 | Matty | Performance – song | |
| 15:05 PM | Jim Marbrook | Talking on Mental notes (which has Annie Helm in it) | |
| 15:20 PM | Shelley Foster | ||
| 15:40 PM | Debra Lampshire | 30 mins on role in royal commision |
MOVIES PROGRAMME
| The Stolen Children of Aotearoa | 10:30 AM | 1hr 44mins | Awa Films |
| Mental Notes | 13:00 PM | 74mins | Jim Marbrook |
| Crazy Happy | 15:00 PM | 48.54 | Denise |
Regards
Ngā mihi nui
Mike Ferriss
Director
Citizens Commission on Human Rights NZ
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